Composition for treating iron



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GEORGE B. SMITH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY A. RIOI-I- I ARDSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

COMPOSITION FOR TREATING IRON, STONE, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,388, dated April 14, 1891.

Application filed December 10, 1890. Serial No. 374,150. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Detroit, in the county of Vayne, State of 5 Michigan, have invented a new and useful Composition for Treating Iron, Stone, and

other Material, of which the following is afull and complete specification.

The object of my improved composition is 1 o toprevent theoxidation or corrosion of thesubstance treated and render the same waterproof and unchangeable from exposure to water and moisture.

My improvement consists of a liquid comr 5 position, which is brushed or washed over the surface of the iron, stone, brick, or othersubstance which it is desired to protect, and which, by reason of its inherent properties, penetrates or is absorbed by the pores of the iron 20 or other material, thus filling up all the pores near the surface and forming a coating over the surface/which prevents rusting or corrosion and disintegration and renders the substance waterproof.

My improved composition consists in its simplest form of a solution of resin and wax in benzine and fusel-oil, (amylic alcohol,) to which may be added linseed-oil. The wax used may be ordinary beeswax, mineral wax, o (ozocerite,) or paraffine-wax, or may be a mixture of any two, or, as I prefer, of all three of the above varieties 'of wax. If desired, any suitable drier may be added to the composition.

In manufacturing my improved composition I proceed as follows: To form about one hundred and seventy gallons of the solution I take four hundred pounds of rosin, thirty pounds of ozocerite (mineral wax,) thirty to pounds of parafline-wax, and fifteen pounds of beeswax. If a drier is desired, I add to the above five pounds of borate of manganese.

The above ingredients are placed in any suitable vessel and heated for about one hour,

5 until thoroughly melted and mixed together.

I then take about fifty (50) gallons of the melted mixture of wax and rosin while hot,

and place them in a tank containing one hundred gallonsof benzine. I then add ten gallens of fusel-oil (amylic alcoh 01) and ten gallons of linseed-oil, When the mixture is ready for use.

The above process may be varied, the

rosin and wax may be placed in the beuzine while cold without previous melting and allowed to dissolve in the latter, and when ontirely dissolved the fusel-oil may be added to the solution,

and linseed-oil and the proportions of the various ingredients may be changed, as is found desirable,and to adapt the composition for use on metal, ferent substances.

stone, and dif- Any coloring-matter may be added to the above composition when it is the surface of'the material treated.

desired to color In this form the composition becomes a paint, or the composition may be mixed with any ordinary paint in place of the usual oil.

IV hen thus used as a paint, the composition not only colors the surface as an ordinary paint, but protects it and prevents any rust or corrosion.

My improved composition is on any metal, as the various f on stone, brick, plaster, Wood material, and as it is applied adapted for use orms of iron, or

, or any porous cold and withwhich it is placed.

It is understood that the benzine performs the function of a solvent of the rosin and wax, and that this solution being mixed with the fusel-oil is carried into the pores of the body to which it is applied by the as a vehicle for that purpose.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A liquid composition con oil and a solution of rosin and wax in benfusel-oil acting sisting of fusel zine, substantially as described.

2. A liquid composition con sisting of fuseloil and linseed-oil and a solution of r'osin and 'wax in beuzine, substantially 3. .A liquid composition con as described. sisting of fuseloil and a solution of rosin and wax, substantially as described.

4. A water-proof compositi on composed of fusel-0ilm1d linseed-oil and rosin, wax, and U. A Water-proof paint composed of fuselav drier dissolved in benziue, substantially as oil and a solution of WLX and resin mixed :0

describedi with the usual coloring-matter, substantially 5. A Water-proof composition composed of 5 fusel-oil and linseed-oil and rosin, ozocerite, 1

pmaffine-wax, beeswax, and borate of manga- Witnesses:

as described.

GEORGE B. SMITH.

nese dissolved in beuzine, substantially as described.

JAMES T. LAW, E. GREEK. 

